Author Archives: "Per Wickstrom"

Starting a new job can be stressful for anyone, not just those in recent recovery: new skills, people, and routine, new demands on your time. Yet for some, a new job is the best decision they ever made. How do you know which is right for you? We’ll take a look at when a new

Entrepreneurship is alive and well in the United States: approximately 30% of the workforce is comprised of self-employed Americans and the workers they hire. But that doesn’t mean entrepreneurship is easy. You may have heard that “8 out of 10 new businesses fail.” The good news is, that statistic is little more than an urban

Researchers have been arguing for decades about human attention span: on the long-end, we adult Americans may be able to focus for up to twenty minutes, on the short end, according to a recent study from Microsoft Corp, you likely lose attention span after 8 seconds (which makes your concentration one second short of a

The summer sun can be diverting, with traffic starting early (particularly on Fridays) as employees head out to soak up some sun. That’s nothing compared to the distractions of the holiday season: family to visit, meals to prep, parties to attend, shopping to do, child care to plan for when kids are off of school,

Let’s face it, a formal exit interview is not generally anyone’s favorite part of the HR job. In fact, many companies end up skipping it altogether, or provide a written exit interview where little (if any) information is gleaned. But if you transform your exit interview into a useful exit conversation, you may gain valuable

Jonathon James (JJ) the Third had a successful copier company he had built from the ground up. When he was ready to retire, he split the company in half and gave one territory to his son JJ the Fourth, the other half to his son-in-law, Patrick. The problem was, the youngest JJ hadn’t paid any

The short answer: no. But to say only no would be so misleading as to be false. Confused? Only you can sort it out: When it comes to deciding whether or not to attend business school, take a look at your own goals and these options to decide what road will work for you. The

If you are old enough to remember the onset of the internet, you know what a joke websites were for a period of time. Movies, toys and even cereal suddenly had websites popping up in their adds, (www.cheerios.com, really? Why?). But that was twenty years ago or more. Now, more people use a web browser